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Kingston,Mi | In Michigan on our flat Lake Plain soils those woodlots are generally hydric soils and when the drainage curve math was applied to them, it resulted in potentially some reduction in size but not elimination. This was a "one and done" chance and many times did not result in anything significant, so most just accepted the results (grudgingly) and moved on.
Some woodlots were examined by professional foresters and the trees plus the under growth were classified as obligate (needed to grow in hydric conditions), those that could grow in either hydric or drier sites and those that were intolerant of hydric soils. A woodlot with a majority of its mature trees being hard maple has been converted from a true hydric soil to a drained soil that was originally hydric thus not classified as hydric and could be removed. These sites were generally along some of our deep county drains and the drainage curve calculations from the drain depth would support the conversion. Been there, done that. | |
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Why in Ohio random square plots of trees??
